WinModems...

[Polsar]

Is there any chance of getting my win-modem to work in Linux?
I'm running Mandrake 7.0
and it is a built-in laptop modem...so there is no chance for me exchangeing it...
thanks...

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[X_console]

I got my laptop winmodem working in Linux. If it's got the Lucent chip, go to http://www.linmodems.org and download and install the Lucent PCI kernel module and your winmodme might work.

The alternative is to buy a PCMCIA card modem or a PCMCIA network card and plug it into your network.

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[davolfman]

As said in the e-mail above, that modem had a lucent chipset (notice the word chip), winmodems don't really have ANY chipset (they use your processor instead) which means they can't run under linux(so-far). Try to dredge up some documentation, if it really is a winmodem then you might as well give up.

[kirin]

My modem is specifically labeled Lucent Win Modem. I'm running Mandrake and the 2.2.17 kernel, and my modem is working. It took some configuring and searching for the drivers but I found some that work. The only problem I have now is that my modem will only connect at 28.8, but its WAY better than nothing.

drivers and instructions can be located at http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto-5.html <-Instructions on installation of the latest lucent winmodem drivers... download of the drivers as well.
or http://www.linmodems.org <- They don't have the latest drivers here